Salt City Sinner

posted on 6/20/2015 by the Salt City Sinner On Wednesday night, Dylann Storm Roof allegedly entered a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. He sat through most of the prayer meeting at Emanuel A.M.E. Church and then opened fire with a handgun, killing nine people including a sitting South Carolina state senator who was also the pastor of the church. Roof was motivated by hatred of Black people, and has since reportedly confessed to committing the crime in an attempt to start a race war. In the wake of such an outburst of deadly violence, I was not sure what to expect from right wing media, be it Fox News, talk radio, or the open, reeking sewer that is the conservative internet, including borderline white nationalist sites like Joseph Farah's WND (formerly World Net Daily). Excuses, sure. The usual bullshit about antidepressants and Big Pharma being the real hidden force at work behind white men committing mass murder in places like Sandy Hook or Aurora (viole...

posted 11/7/2012 by the Salt City Sinner I cracked open Twitter today to get a sampling (for my delectation) of the various unhinged wingnut responses to last night's election results, and came upon this gem from God Kin & Country ("Christian Man 1st, Husband and Father 2nd, Patriot Last"): (What he's "Just Saying..." has been a popular trope in right wing and white supremacist media circles leading up to the election - namely, that savage, dusky minorities would burn America's cities to the ground in an uncontrollable rage in the event of a Romney victory. Yes, "Just Saying...") Leaving aside the fact that Donald Trump called for riots last night, a human with a functioning brain stem and access to Google might have noticed the following : Local media reports that "hundreds of Ole Miss students exchanged racial epithets and violent, politicized chants" across campus. As many as 400 students are said to have partici...

posted 7/26/2012 by the Salt City Sinner For somewhere between five and ten years now, I have been fascinated by WND , formerly World Net Daily. I've posted more than a few entries about Big Joe Farah and his online mental health clinic, and with good reason .WND is the progenitor and primary past and present promoter of the Obama birth certificate conspiracy, promotes the idea of an American Christian theocracy, routinely cranks out hate speech about Arabs, Muslims, gay people, and pretty much anyone else who doesn't fit their target demographic of old, white, ultra-far-right cranks. Of particular note lately is WND's decision to hire Colin Flaherty as their new Black People Are Scary Correspondent. Flaherty has been cranking out a series of " black mobs attack white people " stories for the last month and a half. WND and Flaherty are also pimping his recent rant, "White Girl Bleed A Lot," which is basically a book-length "black mobs...

posted 7/17/2012 by the Salt City Sinner I pointed out the other day that WND, or Big Joe Farah's Woodshed Of Racist Ultra-Christian Freaks (as I like to call it), has taken a few bold steps over the line that previously separated it from openly white supremacist operations like Stormfront. Now it seems that major establishment conservative magazine and website National Review has finally been driven over the edge as well. As Wonkette and Gawker have both pointed out, yesterday's Reagan-fellating column from prominent conservative pundit Jay Nordlinger contains an interesting slip of the tongue: Truth is, some conservatives lamented the fact that [Ronald Reagan] had indeed "grown" in office. He had gone out of his way to accommodate liberals and moderates, and to accommodate the Kremlin. He was raising taxes, spending like crazy, welcoming wetbacks , pursuing arms control. Jay Nordlinger, hero of Real (Really White) America "Welcoming wetback...

posted 7/13/2012 by the Salt City Sinner When I talk or write about far-right, extremist news site and aggregator WND, formerly "World Net Daily," I usually say that "it's the most far-right website this side of Stormfront." Since I won't be linking to Stormfront, suffice to say that it is a white supremacist / Christian Identity site where scary racist weirdos go to post weird scary racist nonsense. Well, the distinction between WND's ideology and outright white supremacy just got much blurrier. Meet Colin Flaherty, newly minted WND contributor and not-at-all-racist author of "White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return Of Racial Violence To America And How The Media Ignores It" (I won't be linking to that, either). A face for radio (and a best-selling racist screed) You know how they say that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail? Let's see what hammer Grand Cyclops Flaherty is wielding right now: Hmm,...

On the off chance that you do not  have a partially infected USB plug installed in the back of your head into which your brainstem receives news (and please, gods, count yourself lucky if that is the case) there is a chance you haven't heard of Trayvon Martin . The long and short of the story is this: a black teenager named Trayvon Martin (armed with an iced tea and a bag of Skittles) was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain named George Zimmerman. Due to some convoluted gun nut laws in Florida, where this took place, the shooter has not been charged with anything. On a personal note, this has led me to reconsider my views on personal defense laws and gun rights, but that's a story for another day. In solidarity, OccupySLC hosted the following tonight: My schedule lately has bordered on the amusing and played slap-and-tickle with the insane, but I felt I had to be there for this. I was right in my instincts. The March for Trayvon was insane . The crowd tha...

In a column published today at World Net Daily (and also probably elsewhere), Patrick J. Buchanan, former top Republican adviser, Presidential contender, and author of colorful right-wing pamphlets, comes clean in a fashion that must have felt like the relinquishment of a great burden. Just like conservative internet forum Free Republic when they decided to " break the n----r barrier ,"* Buchanan has crossed a line from which it is hard to return: The Census Bureau has now fixed at 2041 the year when whites become a minority in a country where the Founding Fathers had restricted citizenship to "free white persons" of "good moral character." If Patrick J. sounds a little nostalgic for the days when a small group of aristocrats literally owned other humans as property while philosophizing in very lofty terms about freedom and liberty, that's because he literally is. Patrick J.'s opening gambit is subtle, and requires a little bit of unpa...

In my previous post on this topic, I explained that a Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry had penned a column for the Nation magazine called " Black President, Double Standards: Why White Liberals Are Abandoning Obama " in which she claimed that white progressives who had given Clinton a pass on his centrist tendencies were unwilling to extend the same courtesy to Obama due to racism. I found this pretty preposterous, and pointed out many variables other than race that could account for Obama's dwindling support (Obama has continued our endless, mindless "war on terror" on two fronts and expanded our military commitments to include the NATO action in Libya as well, Obama has failed on most of his major campaign promises to progressives including closing GITMO and the CIA's black sites, Clinton ran as a moderate while Obama ran as a liberal, &c. &c.). Gene Lyons, an old hand when it comes to anything Clinton, also expressed his outrage over Dr. Harris-Perr...

Quite a hubbub has been sweeping the liberal/progressive media outlets lately regarding a column by Melisa Harris-Perry entitled “ BlackPresident, Double Standard: Why White Liberals Are Abandoning Obama .” Harris-Perry attempts to measure the electoral “roll-off” that can be ascribed to racism in the 2004 Senate race between then-State Senator Barack Obama and perennial wingnut candidate Alan Keyes, the 2008 general election, and the 1994 re-election of President Clinton. Her thesis, which is a bit murky, seems to be that by comparing the presidencies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, we can conclusively establish that the variable at play is racism on the part of white liberals (which is a political category that fits me pretty well, so I might as well kick someone).  Astonishingly, my first and most major objection to Harris-Perry's column ("wait, Clinton wasn't a liberal") is contained within the column itself, written by the author as though it suppor...

' Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl ' (yeah, I know) is one of a crop of direct-to-DVD Japanese gore-fests that are like a combination of the "acting" portion of old porn movies and the "action" section of any film that leaned heavily on the handiwork of Tom Savini (another gem from this genre is ' Tokyo Gore Police '). These films are stitched together with a lot of skits that are hideously unfunny and they are pretty awful to begin with, but VGvFG has significantly upped the ante with a sub-plot involving the 'Super Dark Girls Club': Yeah. That scene played out in an even more obscene fashion than I thought it would, with all the 'dark' girls banging on bongo drums and chanting "Obama" and "Yes We Can" in a faux-African racial good-time get-down. Sometimes, like most people I know, I get tired of political correctness in American culture. Then, however, I bump into a student at the U from a foreign country or co...

Jeffery Goldberg says : This is psychologically fascinating: The mind of Fox Business host Eric Bolling, when confronted with images of President Obama meeting with Gabon's president, Ali Bongo, instantly recalls other black people who have met with President Obama, and comes to the conclusion that Obama feels deep love for black "hoodlums." Not only that, Bolling goes on to refer to the Obama White House as the "hizzouse." This crap is shocking enough when it spills out of a Glenn Beck or other right-wing frothing head. They have to talk professionally for hours a day, and something like their real feelings about a black man in the White House are bound to slip through. This, though, was scripted and "mainstream" news on Fox Business, making it (perhaps) the most blatantly racist anti-Obama media coverage I've seen so far. Stay tuned, though, because like I always say, there's no bottom floor in Hell.